Funny pranks, sentence 27
Pranks that mess with time, travel, money or tests can cost people things that matter.
Who acts: Pranks, things · What happens: mess, cost, matter · To what, where: things, people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Funny pranks» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pranks, things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pranks | prank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cost | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 mess | nsubj |
| 3 | mess | mess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pranks | acl:relcl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mess | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 travel | punct |
| 7 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 money | punct |
| 9 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | conj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 cost | cc |
| 11 | tests | test | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 time | conj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 cost | aux |
| 13 | cost | cost | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cost | iobj |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 cost | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 matter | nsubj |
| 17 | matter | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 things | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cost | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mess | present | Pranks | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cost | can | Pranks | things | people | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme people=Beneficiary thing=Value | |||
| 3 | matter | present | things | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:438-funny-pranks.lesson:27.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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